I ALWAYS said Morri was a one-off, a unique mind in this great game. Morri thinks Munster are boring and to an extent he’s right. They’re so predictable, aren’t they, with their army of brilliant fans and their relentless victories and their spanking new stadium in Limerick and their Doug Howlett and – yawn – [...]

Six Elim Christian College students and a teacher died after the group of 12 they were part of got caught out by a rapidly rising Mangatepopo Stream near Turangi.
A spokeswoman for Mr Carter confirmed to NZPA he had met officials yesterday and had said it was time for the guidelines, which have been in place [...]

Six Elim Christian College students and a teacher died after the group of 12 they were part of got caught out by a rapidly rising Mangatepopo Stream near Turangi.
A spokeswoman for Mr Carter confirmed to NZPA he had met officials yesterday and had said it was time for the guidelines, which have been in place [...]

MetService says two alerts %26mdash; a heavy-rain warning and a severe-thunderstorm watch %26mdash; were in place when the group entered Mangetepopo Gorge, near National Park, on Tuesday afternoon.
But the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre said it did not receive the warnings.
The stream swelled from 0.5 cubic metres a second to 18 cubic metres in [...]

In the bustling streets of Dahab and Sharm el Sheikh reggae music blares from tinny speakers as couples lounge in seaside restaurants bragging of their diving exploits. Once a hippy haven, this portion of the Red Sea is now thoroughly on the map, and although there are still picturesque corners to be enjoyed, it is [...]

Steve DiMarco, associate professor in Texas A%26amp;M’s College of Geosciences who has studied dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico for more than 15 years, believes the dead zone area off the Texas coast extends from the Texas-Louisiana border area to Brownsville. A dead zone occurs when there is hypoxia, or oxygen-depleted water.
Such low levels [...]

%26quot;Desert soils are unusual because the sand grains at the surface are bound together into a crust by bacteria, reducing wind erosion and adding nutrients to the soil. Deserts cover over one third of the world’s land surface and yet our understanding of their contribution to the atmospheric carbon dioxide balance is poor%26quot;, says Dr [...]

Water quality results suggest few problems at most of the sites monitored by Environment Southland.
Coastal scientist Greg Larkin said sampling showed good water quality, particularly in the upper reaches of the rivers and at the regions popular beaches.
However, high E-coli levels had been recorded in the Waikaia, Mataura and Oreti rivers about three weeks ago [...]